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Peter Laarman

Peter Laarman is a United Church of Christ minister who served as senior minister of New York’s Judson Memorial Church and then as executive director of LA’s Progressive Christians Uniting before retiring in 2014. He remains deeply involved in national and regional social justice projects touching on race, class, and religion.

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Religion Dispatches

Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism

Breaking up is hard to do, and I am not at all prepared to discard my deep love and admiration for novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson . Among her novels, I treasure Lila in particular for its…
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

The End of Roe May Have Something Important to Tell Us About the Decline of Mainline Protestant Churches

As we gnaw on the paws of our grief and foreboding regarding the Supreme Court and Roe , RD’s editor-in-chief reminded me of the beautiful Tom Davis tribute to the Rev. Howard Moody that this magazine…
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

Douthat, Do Tell! Some Questions for a Columnist Longing for the Good Old Days of American Religion

Sometimes it’s as necessary as a bowel movement to point out how some very smart pundits can conceal their very weak thinking by way of subtle appeal to a dangerous nostalgia. Ross Douthat comes to…
Peter Laarman
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